The Jets’ veterans were scheduled to return Monday to their complex in Florham Park, following a three-day rookie mini camp over the weekend.

Tajh Boyd planned to have plenty of questions ready for fellow quarterback Geno Smith, who went through a similar transition last season coming out of West Virginia.

Boyd, a former Clemson star, was drafted by the Jets in the sixth round, with their second-to-last of 12 picks. Like Smith a year ago, he is moving from a spread college offense to a pro-style West Coast system with the Jets. Like Smith a year ago, Boyd has to learn how to play more under center and master new footwork.

But unlike Smith, Boyd won’t find himself in a competition to start as a rookie. Barring injury, Smith and Michael Vick are the Jets’ top two quarterbacks, as Vick will challenge Smith to improve on his mostly sluggish rookie season (12 touchdowns, 21 interceptions).

Boyd will compete with Matt Simms just to make the roster. And even if Boyd makes the roster, he will be inactive every week if both Smith and Vick are healthy.

“You want to get out so fast, and you want to do so well that you kind of get like a brain freeze out there sometimes,” Boyd said.

Even though Boyd projects as a weekly inactive player if he makes the roster, his is an intriguing storyline for a couple reasons.

He was coach Rex Ryan’s personal pick in this year’s draft. (Ryan’s son Seth is a walk-on receiver at Clemson.) Ryan decided to pick Boyd even though the Jets did not have a pressing need for a backup quarterback, since they signed Vick in the offseason.

Moreover, Boyd put up absurd numbers in Clemson’s up-tempo offense. During his career, with three seasons as a starter, he threw for 11,904 yards, 107 touchdowns (an ACC record) and 39 interceptions. Counting rushing yards and touchdowns, Boyd finished with 13,069 total yards and 133 touchdowns (also an ACC record).

Yet plenty of questions remained about him entering the draft. At 6-1, how would his height affect his NFL performance? Was he a product of Clemson’s system (and of having Sammy Watkins as his top receiver)?

“In my eyes, everybody has to have somebody to throw to,” Boyd said. “My guy just happened to be Sammy Watkins.”

None of those questions matter for Boyd now, as he tries to process far more important things like the detailed footwork required by offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg and quarterbacks coach David Lee. They have told Boyd that his adjustment is similar to Smith’s last year.

Boyd mentioned that one tricky part of learning the footwork for this offense is that Mornhinweg and Lee require very specific footwork for particular plays. So Boyd must remember not only the play, but also the footwork that goes with it.

“Hopefully I get it sooner rather than later,” Boyd said.

Boyd considered this challenge Friday, as he sat in his hotel room and reviewed his plays.

“I like to think that I’m a deep thinker sometimes,” he said. “It really just hit me that you’re just a small fish in a big pond again. There’s going to be ups and downs. You’ll get frustrated. You’ll get a little confused sometimes. But that’s just part of the process. And after a while, you’ll start to emerge again as one of the bigger fish. That’s just the whole process that I’m looking forward to. You’ve got to make sure that you tell yourself to calm down, relax, and it’s going to work itself out.”

He said his goal for rookie mini camp was: “I just want to show these guys that I can learn here on the run.”

If Boyd left college after his junior year, he probably would have been picked higher, rather than being the 13th of 14 quarterbacks taken in this draft.

“I had a lot of guys ask me here during rookie camp: Did I regret coming back to school?” Boyd said. “I don’t regret the decision at all. I feel like I’m in the right position. I feel like I’m on the right team.”

He said he returned to Clemson “because I wanted to finish. I wanted to go out there and see what else was out there on the table. For me, it was all about having no regrets when I left school. So I wanted to see if I could go out there and get a national championship. I wanted to go out there and see if I could win the Heisman. None of those things happened, but I most definitely enjoyed my experience.”